Day in Dane: A Community Photo Album

Help me choose!

Dane County is going to put together a poster using images taken by county residents on four days throughout their 175th anniversary year. "The purpose is to produce photos that show what makes Dane County a special place to live and work." If you want to see other photos sent in so far from the other three days, go here: www.flickr.com/photos/danecounty175.

The last day for shooting was noon Friday to noon Saturday last week.  Here are four of the images I took that day.  Which should I send in? (Each photographer is allowed only one.)  

Knowledgeable Photoshop advice for enhancing the sky in the first and third images is welcome!

Mike visiting...

Devil's Door at Devil's Lake State Park

The 'Bird Orchestra' of Dr. Evermore

Mike is out here visiting. (Yeah!) In addition to boat rides and relaxing, we saw some art work, toured Art Fair on the Square, heard some great French language music at La Fete de Marquette, made a long hike at Devil's Lake, and stopped in to visit Dr. Evermore's sculptures.

Red Carpet

A large part of the movie "Public Enemies" was filmed in Wisconsin. So, Ack and Anne went to a special preview as a fundraiser for Film Wisconsin. It was a good movie - after all it was "Made in WI"! Yes, we did get to walk on 'a red carpet'.

Wild Life and Art

On Saturday, we drove over to Chicago to see Tommy Sourlis and Sue Eleuterio at the One of a Kind art show/sale at Merchandise Mart. Tom makes wonderful lamp shades and paintings out of glass. That's him in the foreground and some of the lamps shades hanging on the wall. Sue is a folklore buddy of Anne's.

On Sunday morning, Ack was sitting at the kitchen counter checking on Fantasy Football when he noticed a commotion outside as a small bird flew into one of our glass windows. It was trying to escape this red tail hawk, which swooped in and caught the poor little chickadee. Yes, it is cold out. The low last night was below 0 F.

Another drawing...

Anne is at a conference, where Erin has joined her for a few days. Meanwhile Ack is back in Madison trying to win at fantasy football and finishing up a drawing started when they here in DC.

Art weekend

On Friday night we went to Gallery Night; an evening where art galleries and museums stay open late to show off art, let you meet artists and munch on snacks. Our two favorite places were Reneeglass, a very nice glass studio run by Renee Miller, and an exhibit by Sue Medaris at the Central Public Library. On Saturday we borrowed Margret's boat and headed down to the UW Terrace to see a different type of art show. Artists painted about a dozen canvas sails and then the boats tacked and jibed in front of the Terrace. This photo is of one boat. The regatta is part of the Mami Wata exhibit on African water spirits at the Chazen Museum of Art. Tomorrow Anne and I drop of our work to be exhibited in a Northside Artists Group show, "Art of the Marsh." The theme - Cherokee Marsh, which is where we live so it's all about home.

Here are our entries, though the photos did not come out too good. We will take more pictures when the show goes up. The three photos were taken by Anne down by our dock. Ack's is an abstract pastel of a red-wing in the marsh.

Wing It

There will be an art exhibit about the Cherokee Marsh that will be on display at Warner Park Community Center during the month of October and during the time that the Northside Planning Council will be holding its 15th Anniversary celebration. This is a pastel drawing that I'm considering submitting (19 in x 24 in)

End of summer nears...

As the summer draws to an end, Ack is getting ready for class which starts the day after Labor Day. Anne is in NY with Erin helping with Ack's mom. Then she's going to Rye for her dad's surgery. The image here is a pencil drawing Ack recently finished.